Quick post-weekly-outage wrapup: everything went fine, albeit a little slow given recent events. The replica recovery is going on now. Hopefully it'll continue along safely overnight and we can turn the replica back on sometime tomorrow.

One hilarious note. All our server reboots over the weekend dislodged several instances of sendmail, which then went on to send forth unexpectedly large queues of cronjob/server related e-mails to me, Jeff, and Eric. We're talking about 35,000 e-mails, all of which went through the lab spam firewall first, thus clobbering everybody's e-mail in the entire Space Lab for about 24 hours. Fun.

- Matt-- BOINC/SETI@home network/web/science/development person
-- "Any idiot can have a good idea. What is hard is to do it." - Jeanne-Claude

Quick post-weekly-outage wrapup: everything went fine, albeit a little slow given recent events. The replica recovery is going on now. Hopefully it'll continue along safely overnight and we can turn the replica back on sometime tomorrow.

One hilarious note. All our server reboots over the weekend dislodged several instances of sendmail, which then went on to send forth unexpectedly large queues of cronjob/server related e-mails to me, Jeff, and Eric. We're talking about 35,000 e-mails, all of which went through the lab spam firewall first, thus clobbering everybody's e-mail in the entire Space Lab for about 24 hours. Fun.

- Matt

THAT explains the delayed emails to the BOINC Help Desk and the S@H moderators email list.BOINC WIKI

I do like the 35,000 e-mails, no doubt causing all sorts of problems for the administrators, maybe your were not the only once dragged back to work over the weekend.

One another note, the main page for technical notes is getting quite large. I was on a slow wireless broadband link stuck on 2G, when I discovered that this page is huge on a slow connection. Any chance of truncating say the first couple years. If anyone would like access to the older stuff maybe a second page which includes the removed comments.

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One another note, the main page for technical notes is getting quite large. I was on a slow wireless broadband link stuck on 2G, when I discovered that this page is huge on a slow connection. Any chance of truncating say the first couple years. If anyone would like access to the older stuff maybe a second page which includes the removed comments.

Arvid

If you get to the bottom of that page, you discover that several older years have already been split off into separate archives. Being on dial-up, I'd also find it easier to handle if it were split again. But I'd put it in the "nice to have" class, something for a day when more important work is blocked for some reason.

Thank you to the people came up to the lab to try and the servers working again. Am I correct in saying that all the fresh tapes full of data that are left have been loaded into the splitters? Thanks for reading

'We're talking about 35,000 e-mails'and every one or most will have to be checked,at least the message titles to ensure that nothing important is missed
some one is going to be very popular lolOld enough to know better(but)still young enough not to care

I was taking a look at http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_status.html & noticed that a few ap & mb splitters are disabled. I also noticed that there's a new Program running on bruno called Vote_Monitor. Does anyone know what the vote monitor does? I couldn't ever imagine e-mails in my in box were the e-mails telling Matt Jeff & Eric that the the servers were looking up?

We have a lot of splitters listed in our back-end configuration file - more than we usually need (or can handle) - which is why several are disabled at any given time. If we need to start more (or less), it's an easy toggle within the config file.

The vote monitor is a script that regularly check the state of and handles elections for user banishment on the forums.

I was taking a look at http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_status.html & noticed that a few ap & mb splitters are disabled. I also noticed that there's a new Program running on bruno called Vote_Monitor. Does anyone know what the vote monitor does? I couldn't ever imagine e-mails in my in box were the e-mails telling Matt Jeff & Eric that the the servers were looking up?

- Matt-- BOINC/SETI@home network/web/science/development person
-- "Any idiot can have a good idea. What is hard is to do it." - Jeanne-Claude

The vote monitor is a script that regularly check the state of and handles elections for user banishment on the forums.

Cool, how many fake logons under spoofed IP & MACs must I create to ban someone ? j/k ;-)

LOL

It won't work though. In order to vote you must have a bit set on your account indicating that you are a moderator for SETI@Home. You'd have to hack the server where user accounts are stored, find the appropriate flag and set it.

Even then, the Admin(s) can override a ban vote and reverse it immediately, then quickly remove the flagged bit from the offending account. At that point, there's a strong chance that the account with the bit set would be reviewed and possibly perma-banned for such an infraction.